Bomb threat snarls air traffic in Kuujjuaq

“Operations continued smoothly and there were no security issues”

NUNATSIAQ NEWS

Flights to and from Kuujjuaq came to a halt for a period of time on Aug. 30 after a prankster called Air Inuit to plant a false warning that a friend of his, a passenger travelling with the airline that day, was carrying a bomb.

Cruise ship grounding in Nunavut waters reveals security holes

“You don’t have the infrastructure to do it properly”

JANE GEORGE

Now that the Clipper Adventurer passengers have returned safely back south, the incident which saw them forced to evacuate their 90-metre cruise ship, which grounded Aug. 27 near Kugluktuk, raises many questions.

A Transportation Safety Board investigation will eventually reveal the circumstances...

Photo: Clipper Adventure passengers arrive in Kugluktuk

Search finds no sign of Arctic shipwrecks

"I’m always disappointed if we don’t find something"

SPECIAL TO NUNATSIAQ NEWS

RANDY BOSWELL
POSTMEDIA NEWS

The Canadian government scientists hoping for a second major Arctic shipwreck discovery this summer came up empty after a six-day search for the Terror and Erebus, the lost vessels of the 19th-century Franklin expedition.

Grounding of Nunavut cruise ship raises questions

“We dodged a bullet on this"

SPECIAL TO NUNATSIAQ NEWS

TOBI COHEN
POSTMEDIA NEWS

The rescue of a cruise ship stranded on a rock in Arctic waters over the weekend is raising questions about whether Canada would have the ability to respond quickly enough to a true disaster in its Far North.

Photo: The Amundsen to the rescue

Iqaluit mulls limits to credit card transactions

The city is losing money on service fees, councillors learn

GABRIEL ZARATE

The City of Iqaluit is considering a ban on paying municipal bills by credit card.

At a presentation to the city’s finance committee on Aug. 18, corporate services director John Mabberi-Muydoni complained that the city was losing money on the service fees that credit card companies charge for...

Photo: PM takes a spin

Police, grieving families in Baker Lake seek information

Families offer a $10,000 for tips leading to an arrest in graveyard desecration

NUNATSIAQ NEWS

No one in Baker Lake has come forward yet with information which could help RCMP in Baker Lake nab the individual or individuals who dug up two graves in the community’s cemetery on the nights of June 5 and 6.

“The Baker Lake RCMP and the grieved families are seeking public assistance,” said an...

North lags in high-school grads, map shows

"There is a growing consensus that high school completion is linked to future opportunity"

NUNATSIAQ NEWS

In some regions of northern Canada, almost half of all adults have not completed high school, compared to one in 12 in southern Canada, according to the Centre for the North’s “High School Confidential” map, the third in the Conference Board of Canada’s “Here, the North” series.